On the edge unwillingly, without being completely aware of it, I let go of your hand

and a rain of the colour of the tears of when I think of our linked hands flowing flows.

Our farewell gift will be the fragment of my cut and torn self

and the pain that will remain here.

Until our life wither away, we will …. dreams**

come on, let’s sing it together.

…. our screaming voice**

and our hearts, while weeping scattered sighs, will say the words.***

On the lightly tainted day of farewell,

let’s wave our hands goodbye with a smile.

Reality will slumber and become void

in a transparent twilight.

But even now I can’t understand that “something” which keeps on burning me and turning me into smoke,

I just keep walking

following the path of dreams.

I keep feeding myself with the pain and the sadness which twist my voice…

Because the silence that gets closer and closer is scary.

Until our life wither away, we will …. dreams**

come on, let’s sing it together.

…. our screaming voice**

and our hearts, while weeping scattered sighs, will say the words.***

On the lightly tainted day of farewell,

let’s wave our hands goodbye with a smile.

Reality will slumber and become void

in a transparent twilight.

And while we dream within a dream, the horizon turns hazy…

Notes and others

*=The title is a pun on the expression 暁花水月 (read in the same way as the title) which is literally “flowers reflected on the image of the moon reflected on the water” indicating the concept of “a beauty that cannot be conveyed by words”. In the title of the song instead of 花 (“flowers”) there’s 歌(“song”): I tried to combine the pun and the meaning in the title I chose.

**=since this is a song to thank the fans (so a “must” song during the live) the lines are left with no verb so that everyone can say whatever they prefer while song is performed: I find this thing extremely genial.

***=The expression for “words” here doesn’t refer to “common words” but to “the words of classical Japanese poetry”. They were seen as unique since they were used to talk about one’s own feeling with honesty and elegance (and actually with a lot of other things).